A time capsule of the greatest financial mania in the history of mankind, told in real-time by regular folks and patriots. May future generations better understand the madness of crowds, and how power and money corrupt.

May 30, 2006

Will Housing Panic be next?Readers - I've been made aware that three housing bubble blogs, hosted on blogger (blogspot) have been attacked and taken down today:http://overvalued.blogspot.comhttp://thereisnohousingbubble.blogspot.comhttp://crash2006.blogspot.comThese sites are now redirected to spam sites. There may be others, and the attack may be ongoing.I've changed my password on blogger, am logged in to avoid a logout, and backed up my code, however, the real risk may be the archives. I'd hate to lose those. If anyone has any further advice, or know how to contact a human at blogger, please post here. I've been thinking of moving off of blogger, and have housingpanic.com, just don't have the time or wherewithal to do the move. Again - any advice appreciated. You can't just pick up the phone and call blogger unfortunately - there is no there there.Yes, we are going up against some big forces and big $$$ - the NAR, millions of soon to be unemployed realtors, the entire corrupt Real Estate Industrial Complex. I'm surprised it's taken this long to attack us.

Find a unix machine (Solaris, Linux, OSX, even windows with Cygwin). Use the wget program to recusively get the directories and subdirectories of this blog and save it to a local directory.

Try browsing to this local directory. It probably won't work entirely because you don't have the blogger display engine and many of the links point to blogger.com but it could serve as an emergency backup of the text content. Hire a unix/linux/solaris expert to write a script to replace the links or ask the webspace provider if they have a blogger compatible engine.

keith, if you want to preserve all theposts, you may be able to use a ripper soft like this one http://www.tucows.com/preview/398768 its free for 30 days. if you are not familiar, its for offline browsing.it will follow all links on your site and down load everything. you can set it to only follow links within your domain, so it doenst go all over the net. its a crude way to do it but, it works.

One of the spam sites talks about opportunities to 'work from home'. The irony being that very soon, most of these people won't have homes to work from anymore. Unless, of course, they mean working from a cardboard box under a bridge...

here are a few more software titles.you can set them to do exactly what you need them to do. after downloading your site, you should have a workingreplica on your pc. you can even set it to down load changes once a day.website extractor is very good.

Get a good lawyer NOW. One like Cochran that loves publicity and isn't afraid of controversy... they may sue the attackers and work for their cut. Make this attack know to the public asap!! Contact Hot Property and Abrams Report.

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Anyone with access to the hosting company can put a redirect on your URL to another URL, while hiding the real URL of the second. Kids, hackers, do this kind of crap. So do careless employees.

You need to call your hosting company and make sure they lock your site.

If you go to overvalued.blogspot.com, which takes you to something else, right click on the page and select "view source," you will see that this HTML page for Atlanta real estate HAS, near the bottom, the HTML coding for overvalued.blogspot.com. In other words, somebody (or a computer) has rigged the page to accept the redirects.

The hosting company is the most probable suspect, and in any event, the only power that can fix the problem (assuming the company hasn't done this on purpose), which can be done in a matter of seconds or minutes. If all the sites in question are part of the same blog company, then there's your answer. You can probably find an address and phone number by using your own computer's Interest search feature.

Following up on what I just wrote, this is not necessarily indicative of a virus or anything of the sort. I looks like a standard re-direct, with cloaking of the URL of site to which the redirect is made.

My friend went to work for a company that asked me to send out spam for them (unsolicited). I told him no way, my isp would shut me down. They found a company in China that would do it for them though.

They even send junk faxes to fax machines.

So corrupt. Lets push these ridiculous housing mortgages to people who cannot afford them, no doc, no problem! They will be in default in a few monthes.

i'm ripping the full site right now using the tucows website ripper program - i'll let you know if that works. worst case I'd get the blog up and running at www.housingpanic.com while I figure out how to fix the http://housingpanic.blogspot.com account

"The hosting company is the most probable suspect, and in any event, the only power that can fix the problem (assuming the company hasn't done this on purpose), which can be done in a matter of seconds or minutes. If all the sites in question are part of the same blog company"

while I figure this out, anyone in the HP community with tech savvy that can create a mirror of this site, you're more than welcome. Then if we go down, email me at housingpanic@yahoo.com and let me know you have a copy

The owners may not be aware of the redirects, though they might notice a sudden bump in the number of visitors they're getting. However, the new visitors won't be staying, so it will be a momentary thrill.

"'The hosting company is the most probable suspect, and in any event, the only power that can fix the problem (assuming the company hasn't done this on purpose), which can be done in a matter of seconds or minutes. If all the sites in question are part of the same blog company'

"-so we should suspect an insider at google/blogger/blogspot?"

Yes, thought not necessarily someone being malicious. It could just be a mistake.

In any event, it's easy to fix by the hosting company. Keith probably does not need to copy the site (Google should have it already), just contact the host and have it locked. This takes only a second.

He also needs to notify the company about the other blogs. There may be a reasonable explanation.

I blog from a pretty secure network. Two of the redirected pages are also trying to open up Microsoft.com, so there may be more to this than a simple redirect hack.

Who do you suppose is behind this campain to prevent real news on the economic crash? My guess is the chicom's but it could be any party with a lot of $$$ at risk. From the way they are only redirecting, to RE friendly sites, maybe it is just script kiddies who are in too deep on a flip or two. Just maybe

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